Two very different but oddly connected stories are making the rounds
this week as two members of very different circles face persecution for
their conservative beliefs.

First, in California a scientist at California State University has been fired from job
because the University could no longer tolerate his Christian faith. It
didn’t help that the scientist had made a momentous discovery that he
argued proved dinosaurs roamed the earth as recently as 4,000 years ago.

A few years ago Mark Armitage discovered a large triceratops horn in
Montana. Upon examining the horn under a high-powered microscope, he
made another fascinating find. He discovered soft tissue on the horn,
which seems to indicate that “dinosaurs roamed the earth only thousands of years in the past rather than going extinct 60 million years ago.”

According to court documents, shortly after the original soft
tissue discovery, a CSUN official told Armitage, “We are not going to
tolerate your religion in this department!”

This book has been written in the memory of the countless innocent victims of the Communist conquest in South Vietnam, notably:

The hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children massacred in villages and cities, especially Hué;

The hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamesesoldiers
and officials who were executed, tortured or imprisoned after the end of
the war;

The millions who were driven from their country and the hundreds of thousands who drowned in the process;

The brave ARVN soldiers who fought on when all was
lost, and their valiant generals who took their own lives in the end;

The young South and North Vietnamese conscriptswho
died in this so-called war of liberation, which brought no liberty;

The 58,272 American, 4,407 South Korean, 487 Australian,

351 Thai and 37 New Zealand soldiers who made

the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam;

My German compatriots who were murdered by the
Vietnamese Communists, notably Dr. Horst-Günther and Elisabetha Krainick,
Dr. Alois Alteköster, Dr. Raimund Discher, Prof. Otto Söllner, Baron
Hasso Rüdt von Collenberg and many others, who came as friends and paid
for it with their lives.

UWE SIEMON-NETTO

Epilogue

The fruit of terror and the virtue of hope

More than forty years have passsed by
since I paid Vietnam my farewell visit. In 2015, the world will observe
the 40th anniversary of the Communist victory, and many will call it
“liberation.” The Hué railway station, where a locomotive and a baggage
car left on a symbolic 500-yard journey every morning at eight, no
longer qualifies as Theater of the Absurd. It has been attractively
restored and painted pink. Once again, as in the days of French
dominance, it is the most beautiful station in Indochina, and taxi
drivers do not have to wait outside in vain. Ten comfortable trains come
through every day, five heading north, five going south. Collectively
they are unofficially called Reunification Express. Should I not
rejoice? Is this not just as in Germany, where the Berlin Wall and the
minefields have gone, and now high speed trains zoom back and forth
between the formerly Communist East and the democratic West at speeds up
to 200 miles an hour?

Obviously I am
glad that the war is over and Vietnam is reunified and prosperous, that
the trains are running, and most of the minefields cleared. But this is
where the analogy with Germany ends. Germany achieved its unity, in part
because the Germans in the Communist East toppled their totalitarian
government with peaceful protest and resistance, and in part thanks to
the wisdom of international leaders such as Presidents Ronald Reagan and
George G.W. Bush, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev, and partly because of the predictable economic collapse of
the flawed socialist system in the Soviet Bloc. Nobody died in the
process, nobody was tortured, nobody ended up in camps, nobody was
forced to flee.

There is an
incomprehensible tendency, even among respectable pundits in the West,
to refer to the Communist takeover of the South as “liberation.” This
begs the question: liberation from what and to what? Was South Vietnam
“freed” for the imposition of a totalitarian one-party state that ranks
among the world’s worst offenders against the principles of religious
liberty, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly,
and freedom of the press? What kind of liberation was this that cost 3.8
million Vietnamese lives between 1955 and 1975 and has forced more than
one million Vietnamese to flee their country, not only from the
vanquished South, but even from ports in the North, causing between
200,000 and 400,000 of the so-called boat people to drown?

Was it an act of liberation to execute 100,000 South Vietnamese
soldiers and officials after the fall of Saigon? Was it meant to be a
display of generosity by the victors to herd between one million and 2.5
million South Vietnamese to reeducation camps, where an estimated
165,000 perished and thousands more have sustained lasting brain
injuries and mental health problems resulting from torture, according to
a study by an international team of scholars led by Harvard
psychiatrist Richard F. Molina?

Since the
mid-1960s, political and historical mythographers in the West have
either naively or dishonestly accepted Hanoi’s line that this conflict
was a “People’s War.” Well it was, if one accepts Mao Zedong’s and Vo
Nguyen Giap’s interpretation of the term. But the Saxon Genitive implies
that a “People’s War” is supposed to be a war of the people. In truth,
it wasn’t. Some 3.8 million Vietnamese were killed between 1955 and
1975. Approximately 164,000 South Vietnamese civilians were annihilated
in a Communist democide during that same period, according to political
scientist Rudolf Joseph Rummel of the University of Hawaii. The Pentagon
estimated that 950,000 North Vietnamese and more than 200,000 South
Vietnamese soldiers fell in combat, in addition to 58,000 U.S. troops.
This was no war of the people; it was a war against the people.

In the all too often hypocritical rhetoric about the Vietnam War over
the last 40 years, the key question has gone AWOL, to use a military
acronym meaning absent without leave, and the question is: Did the
Vietnamese people desire a Communist regime? If so, how was it that
nearly one million northerners moved south following the division of
their country in 1954, while only about 130,000 Vietminh sympathizers
went in the opposite direction?

Who started this war? Were there
any South Vietnamese units operating in North Vietnam? No. Did South
Vietnamese guerillas cross the 17th parallel to disembowel and hang
pro-Communist village chiefs, their wives and children in the northern
countryside? No. Did the South Vietnamese regime massacre an entire
class of people by the tens of thousands in is territory after 1954 the
way the North Vietnamese had liquidated landowners and other potential
opponents of their Soviet-style rule? No. Did the South Vietnamese
establish a monolithic one-party system? No.

As a German citizen, I had no dog in this fight, as Americans would
say. But to paraphrase the Journalists’ Prayer Book, such as hardened
reporters have hearts, mine was, and still is, with the wounded
Vietnamese people. It belongs to these sublime women who can often be so
blunt and amusing; it belongs to the cerebral and immensely complicated
Vietnamese men trying to dream the perfect dream in a Confucian way; to
the childlike soldiers going to battle carrying their only possessions –
a canary in a cage; to young war widows who had their bodies
grotesquely modified just to catch a GI husband and create a new home
for their children and perhaps for themselves, rather than face a
Communist tyranny; to those urban and rural urchins minding each other
and water buffalos. What a hardened heart I had, it belonged to those I
saw running away from the butchery and the fighting – always in a
southerly direction, but never ever north, until at the very end there
was no VC-free square inch to escape to. I saw them slaughtered or
buried alive in mass graves, and still have the stench of putrefying
corpses in my nostrils.

I wasn’t there
when Saigon fell after entire ARVN units, often so maligned in the U.S.
media and now abandoned by their American allies, fought on nobly,
knowing that they would neither win nor survive this final battle. I was
in Paris, mourning, when all this happened, and I wish I could have
paid my respects to five South Vietnamese generals before they committed
suicide when the game was over that they should have won: Le Van Hung
(born 1933), Le Nguyen Vy (born 1933), Nguyen Khoa Nam (born 1927), Tran
Van Hai (born 1927) and Pham Van Phu (born 1927).

As I write this epilogue, a fellow journalist and scholar of sorts, a
man born in 1975 when Saigon fell, is making a name for himself,
pillorying American war crimes in Vietnam. Yes, they deserve to be
pilloried. Yes, they were a reality. My Lai was reality; I know, I was
at the court martial where Lt. William Calley was found guilty. I know
that the body count fetish dreamed up by the warped minds of political
and military leaders of the McNamara era in Washington and U.S.
headquarters in Saigon cost thousands of innocent civilians their lives.

But no atrocity committed by dysfunctional American or South Vietnamese
units ever measured up to the state-ordered carnage inflicted upon the
South Vietnamese in the name of Ho Chi Minh. These crimes his successors
will not even acknowledge to this very day because nobody has the guts
to ask them: why did your people slaughter all these innocents whom you
claimed to have fought to liberate? As a German, I take the liberty of
adding a footnote here: why did you murder my friend Hasso Rüdt von
Collenberg, the German doctors in Hué, and poor Otto Söllner, whose only
“crime” was to have taught young Vietnamese how to conduct an
orchestra? Why did you kidnap those young Knights of Malta volunteers,
subjecting some to death in the jungle and others to imprisonment in
Hanoi? Why does it not even occur to you to search your conscience
regarding these actions, the way thoughtful Americans, while correctly
laying claim to have been on the right side in World War II, wrestle
with the terrible legacy left by the carpet bombing of residential areas
in Germany and the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Reminiscing on her ordeal on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in the news magazine
Der Spiegel, the West German nurse Monika Schwinn recalled her
encounter with North Vietnamese combat units on their way south as one
of her most horrifying experiences. She described the intensity of
hatred in the facial expressions of these soldiers and wrote that her
Vietcong minders had great difficulty preventing them from killing the
Germans on the spot. Nobody is born hating. Hate must be taught.
Fostering murder in the hearts of young people involved a teaching
discipline at which only the school of totalitarianism excels. In his
brilliant biography of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, historian Peter
Longrich relates that even this founder of this evil force of
black-uniformed thugs did not find it easy to make his men overcome
natural inhibitions to execute the holocaust (Longerich. Heinrich
Himmler. Oxford: 2012). It was the hatred in the eyes of the North
Vietnamese killers in Hué that many of the survivors I interviewed
considered most haunting. But of course one did have to spend time with
them, suffer with them, gain their confidence and speak with them to
discover this central element of a human, political and military
catastrophe that is still with us four decades later. Opining about it
from the ivory towers of a New York television studio or an Ivy League
school does not suffice.

In a stirring
book about the French Foreign Legion, Paul Bonnecarrère relates the
historic meeting between the legendary Col. Pierre Charton and Gen. Vo
Nguyen Giap after France’s defeat at Dien Bien Phu (Bonnecarrère. Par le
Sang Versé. Paris: 1968). Charton was a prisoner of war in the hands
of the Communist Vietminh. Giap came to pay his respects to him but also
to gloat. The encounter took place in a classroom in front some 20
students attending a political indoctrination session. The dialogue
between the two antagonists went thus:

Giap: “I have defeated you, mon colonel!

Charton: “No you haven’t, mon general. The jungle has defeated us… and
the support you received from the civilian population -- by means of
terror.”

Vo Nguyen Giap didn’t like this
answer, and forbade his students to write it down. But it was the truth,
or more precisely: it was half of the truth. The other half was that
democracies like the United States seemed indeed politically and
psychologically ill equipped to fight a protracted war. This
realization, alongside the use of terror tactics, became a pillar of
Giap’s strategy. He was right and he won. Even more dangerous
totalitarians are taking note today.

To
this very day I am haunted by the conclusion I was forced to draw from
my Vietnam experience: when a self-indulgent throwaway culture grows
tired of sacrifice it becomes capable of discarding everything. It is
prepared to dump a people whom it set out to protect. It is even willing
to trash the lives, the physical and mental health, the dignity, memory
and good name of the young men who were sent to war. This happened in
the case of the Vietnam Veterans. The implications of this deficiency
endemic in liberal democracies are terrifying because in the end it will
demolish their legitimacy and destroy a free society.

However,
I must not end my narrative on this dark note. As an observer of
history, I know that history, while closed to the past, is always open
to the future. As a Christian I know who is the Lord of history. The
Communist victory in Vietnam was based on evil foundations: terror,
murder and betrayal. Obviously, I do not advocate a resumption of
bloodshed to rectify this outcome, even if this were possible. But as an
admirer of the resilient Vietnamese people, I know that they will
ultimately find the right peaceful means and the leaders to rid
themselves of their despots. It might take generations, but it will
happen.

In this sense, I will now join the queue of
the pedicab drivers outside the Hué railway station where no passenger
arrived back in 1972. Where else would my place be? What else do I
possess but hope?

The sultan of Washington? Does he think he can just make a
“decree” and we will bow down and simply obey? The decree he released
today says that all schools across the country have to allow students to
choose the restrooms and locker rooms according to “their internal
sense of gender.”

If schools don’t comply, he threatens loss of funding and
lawsuits from the federal government. What about the privacy and
protection of all the other students? Isn’t this discrimination against all of them? This opens up bathrooms to sexual predators and perverts.

A decree does not carry the force
of law–that’s the job of Congress. The president obviously must have no
fear of God, who made us and created us male and female.

I hope that school districts
across this nation will defy President Obama and his administration’s
radical progressive agenda to promote and advance the sin of
homosexuality and the LGBT agenda.

Three of Arpaio's subordinates also violated court orders, the judge said.

"The
court finds that the defendants have engaged in multiple acts of
misconduct, dishonesty, and bad faith with respect to the plaintiff
class (Latinos) and the protection of its rights," Snow wrote. "They
have demonstrated a persistent disregard for the orders of this court,
as well as an intention to violate and manipulate the laws and policies
regulating their conduct as they pertain to their obligations to be
fair, 'equitable(,) and impartial' with respect to the interests of the
plaintiff class."

Every chapter of the Koran begins
with the subtitle: “In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the
Merciful.” This gives the initial impression that the Koran and
Judeo-Christian Scripture have the same thematic message, but that would
be wrong. They do address many of the same topics—creation, mankind’s
relationship to his creator, his moral responsibilities, and
salvation—but they are tied together quite differently with strongly
contrasting themes of salvation and the nature of both man and God. Both
Allah and Jehovah are all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-wise, but
their dispositions toward mankind are strikingly different, especially
with regard to the issue of salvation.

The Koran declares the divine Trinity of Christianity
to be hell-deserving blasphemy. The Jesus of the Koran is only a
prophet, not the divine Son of God, did not die on the cross, or save
anyone from their sins. The Jesus of the Koran is, in fact,
anti-Christian and will condemn Christians on the Day of Judgment. The
Koran confuses Mary the Mother of Jesus with Miriam, the sister of
Moses. Several early dated chapters of the Koran reflect considerable
Hebrew and some Christian moral influences and imitations mixed with
Arab and probably Muhammad’s own influence.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.

Thank you

I would just like you to know how so very glad I am that I found your blog. I have learned more history from you and the many links that you post than I have from reading all my history books. I can never thank you enough for the education you are freely giving me. It is priceless. And eye opening.

Many times I will not comment, but that does not mean I am not reading and learning.

You sir, are an educator. Thank you.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

Good morning Mr. Townsend,

Just to let you know I have finally finished that massive tome on General Lee. I never knew 1/10th of what a great man he was. No wonder the South is so proud of him! So sad that we have few men of his caliber today. We need them desperately. I have learned more history through you and your blog than I thought I could ever learn. I am very grateful to you. Thank you so much for taking time to answer my e-mail. And thank you for your blog and for opening my eyes.

PhyllisWantage, NJ

".......So good to hear from you! And also so pleased you are converting more of us Yankees! You have no idea how many people you have taught. And how many are so grateful to you for showing us the truth."

Your faithful friend,

Phylis

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I have also learned from Brock Townsend and two nurses lately, that appreciation expressed by someone for whom you have great respect overwhelms the lack of appreciation by some from whom you expect it. I believe that we cannot really know which small bit of help makes the life-saving difference. ﻿I may have learned more real American history on Brock's blog than in 20 years of government schooling.

I have learned more history from you than all the years I was supposed to be in school (and not out hunting or fishing).

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I really must say, I like thousands of others have said, your blog is the best out there and with all of your history and experience, you should run for *president. I look forward to reading your blog every day and every day I learn from you. Thank you for the time you put into this effort .

Sincerely,

Scott Fitts

*It would have to be an improvement. :) BT

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Hi Brock,

Ever since I picked up on your blog I "Knew" you were a "Gentleman of the South!" You lack the "Crassness" that is so prevalent in today's Sociopolitical arena but speak with the Firmness in Truth and Conviction of Right like the words of our Late Great President Jefferson Davis! That is Honorable.

I have been thinking about this for a while now. At first it was a very subtle notice, then it became larger as I saw more. Then it bloomed to me to be what it is. In your writings, in your Blog, Brock, "You" have written, posted and done more to eradicate the "Revisionist History" forced on us by the "Northern Aggressors,"BAR NONE!!!" The "Stars and Bars" fly High and Proud today even more thanks to your efforts!

Reading your post on 03 JUNE about the birthday of President Jefferson Davis and the "quotes" of his was the galvanizing statement! The first words of "His" you posted say so much, are timeless and can never be "Destroyed!" by any man! .......and those words were........

"Truth crushed to the earth is still truth still and like a seed will rise again."--Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)

In so many ways you and your efforts to keep and carry on the "Truth of the South" are the water and light of the Sun that nourish "That Seed" that Jefferson Davis speaks of! That "Seed" of "Southern Truth!" That cannot be vanquished because of efforts like Men as yourself!

Thanks for your selfless effort,

The "Stars and Bars" FLY!

Got gunz....OUTLAW?

III%,

skybill-out

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Dear Mr. Townsend,

I wanted to write to thank you for the pleasure and education I have received from reading your blog "Free North Carolina". I can honestly say that FNC is one of the first sites I visit daily.

I am a northerner by birth yet I consider the vilification of all things "South" a true and tragic disgrace. Your work has enabled me to become more familiar with a culture that I admire, yet have never really been familiar with.

Keep up the outstanding work!

A friend north of the Mason-Dixon Line,

Bob

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My good sir,

I have been reading your blog for years, filling-in the woeful gaps in my knowledge thanks to your efforts, and have been truly impressed with not merely the depth and breadth of the topics you broach, but the frank and honest way you deal with them.

I salute you.

You cannot imagine my immense delight at just reading the "Witting, intentionally, and willfully..." posted on your site, that you linked to Theo Spark's blog.

I'm the guy that wrote it and sent it to Theo a few days ago.

On both our behalves, thank you for posting it on your fine blog.

With warmest personal regards,

Rico

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